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BELLUM CUM ANTIOCHO IN ASIA GESTUM
191-190 a.C.
B.C.
191.—For war in A.sia again.st Antiochus, Rome had allies ready in Asia, viz., Eumenes, King of Pergamum, the Rhodians,
Samiis, Chius, and Lesbus.
Cains Livius, with the Roman fleet, sails from Delus to Chius, and then appears offPhocaea, which opens its gates to
him. Eumenes of Pergamum joins him here with 50 ships.
Antiochus, who had sailed to the Chersonese, (^uits the Hellespont and returns to Ephesus. His fleet puts out from
Cyssus.
The Romans from Phocaea make for Coryeum promontory, and fall in with the fleet of Antiochus. The latter are
routed, and retire to Ephesus.
The Romans enter Cyssus, thence sail to Chius, Phoenicus and Phocaea, and winter at Canae.
Antiochus winters in Phrj'gia.
190. —A Roman expedition from Canae, where the fleet wintered, lays waste Thyatira.
Livius brings the Roman fleet into the "Achaean Harbour," thence to Iliuui, on his way to the Hellespont to
transport Roman troops. He receives the surrender of Sestus and besieges Abj'dus.
The fleet of .\ntiochus sails from Ephesus, puts in at Pygela, crosses to Samus, and proceeds towards Panormus,
where it falls in with the Rhodian fleet and shatters it.
Livius thereupon raises the siege of Abydus, sails with Eumenes to Phocaea, then held by a garrison of Antiochus,
and then, by way of Erythrae and Coryeum, makes for Saiinis, eSecting a junction with the Rhodians.
Antiochus' fleet attempts to intercept them by going to Jlyonnesus promontory and to the island of Maoris, but,
failing, returns to Ephesus. The Romans on their junction with the Rhodians attempt, to entice the enemy out
of Ephesus, but fail. They then retire to Samus.
L. Aemilins PauUus now arrives to take command at Samus. Part of the fleet is detached to lie outside Ephesus ;
part sails past Jliletus, Myndus, Halicarnassus, Cnidus, and Cos to Rlio